June 29th: “o–o”

Job done for another week. Jesus christ am I ever glad I replaced my old computer. No more waiting around for seven hours in Paint Shop while the processor leisurely eases itself off its bar stool and slowly crunches a few numbers here and there in between schooners of absinthe. It’s all lightning-quick and molasses-free now. Or something. Look, I feel obliged to type something here, so there you have it: another snapshot of an International Man of Action, coloring his weirdo comics with a little magic box. Until next time…

–Rowntree

June 22nd: “In Defense of Weird”

Another day, another comic that stopped making sense on friday but by then it was too late to think of something else so here it is as preceded and described by this sentence which you might say is maybe a run-on sentence but who’s to say what is and isn’t a run-on sentence in this world of grey areas and blurred lines and comics that don’t make sense even to the person who drew them which is too bad because it’s his birthday tomorrow and he really should take one day a year to feel quasi-pseudo-good about himself. Oh yeah, and I bought me a new PC, hence much setting-up and downloading and installing and so on, hence the lateness of this week’s installment of the comic. Switching computers is pretty much just as bad as switching apartments, I’m finding, but at least I finally replaced my 10-year old monitor–which will result in a different look to the coloring of the comic, perhaps, because the brightness/contrast/whatever settings are all different now. Oh well, at least i’m not subconsciously inserting Chad Kroeger into my comics!! J’ACCUSE, Penny Arcade!!!

–Rowntree

June 15th: “Pizza Hut Sphynx”

This week’s comic now available in the usual place.

Other site updates this week:

Fixed up the About page and also the Links page, so, uh, oh boy howdy and all that. Well, that’s it for me this week.

–Rowntree

PS: It says “You Are Breakfast.”

Subnormality for June 8th

New comic is finished. I like most of the movies mentioned, incidentally, and I definitely love two of the three filmmakers referenced (two thumbs down, Spielberg), so don’t get me wrong or anything. I saw that new Iron Man movie, as that was the big superhero comic I read as a kid, and I’ve gotta say the movie was a hell of a lot better than the comics. Wow, Tony Stark actually has a personality now! Neat. I wish they’d made actually good Marvel films when I was 14 years old and might have been more excited. Still, it was a decent two hours at the theatre, and bald-beard Jeff Bridges was hilarious. Unconvincing acting on the part of the people playing military personnel though. That one F-22 pilot was kind of distractingly terrible, but never mind. In other news, me, myself, and I have some cameo action in the new “Bananaglass” comic, which you can see below (click the image for the full comic). Drawing me being disgusted by Nickelback is definitely one way to get on my good side, although my appetite for ice cream has been taking a beating this month. Cheerio for now.

–Rowntree

Subnormality for June 1st

I make comics. Here is one. Next week: another one. This is me being enthusiastic.

–Rowntree